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redglow

Lifer
Jan 7, 2019
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Was in a tiny tobacco/liquor store northeast of Detroit a few weeks ago and they had a few very old tins of Kentucky Club Pipe Tobacco and I believe Kentucky Club Aromatic on hand. They looked like they were 25 or 30 years old.
I may have to stop back in there and make a deal with the store owner. Not sure about the quality of the tobacco. But, the artwork alone on those tins would make them a very cool addition to the tobacco cellar.

 

acidpox

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Is this the tin your talking about? If so your right it would make a nice display piece.
kyclubtinpenntobacco.jpg


 

didimauw

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Jul 28, 2013
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My grandfather smoked Kentucky Club Aromatic for many many years. He said he owned many pipes, but only ever smoked that blend. I ordered a pound after talking with him about it a few years ago so I could try it. Not a fan, but I still have not of the pound. I should try it again soon.

 

redglow

Lifer
Jan 7, 2019
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I'm pretty sure that was one of them acid. They were round tins though. Great artwork on those old tins. I'm going to stop back in there. I believe one of the tins had more of a red color. So, I'm pretty sure it was the aromatic blend. I'll get some pics.
didi, I like these old tins. Reminds you of what seem like much simpler times. And good people that have come and gone.

 
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shermnatman

Lifer
Jan 25, 2019
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RedGlow - Such cool artwork. I would snag them if you can.
I have always been curious about Kentucky Club, so I ordered an ounce of the MATCH Kentucky Mixture (Sutliff?), which is coming in on Wednesday; just in time for this weeks smoker. I'm looking forward to it, and hoping this will not be a case where old tin art is better eye-candy than the recreation mixture I receive. - Sherm Natman
From the online catalog: "Kentucky Club Aromatic was an American classic made with smooth Burley, earthy Turkish, sweet Virginia and a bit of tangy Perique with an old-fashioned, very pleasant top flavor for an outstanding room note.. MATCH - Kentucky Mix is a more-than-suitable replacement for the original and is a very affordable alternative."

 

redglow

Lifer
Jan 7, 2019
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Sherm, hopefully it'll be just like the description on the back of the Kentucky Club tin. "An aroma that you, and the family too, will enjoy." :mrgreen:

 

shermnatman

Lifer
Jan 25, 2019
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Philadelphia Suburbs, Pennsylvania
RedGlow - LOL!!! You know that description would never pass the new FDA censors and the so-called: Family Tobacco Protection Act - because when it comes to excuses for the implementation of sweeping exploitative taxation of a targeted group of consumers, the justification of protecting of an imagined family from being victimized and medically endangered by pipe tobacco is more "creative" then the copy-writer who wrote that original product description. - Sherm Natman

 

ray47

Lifer
Jul 10, 2015
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Dalzell, South Carolina
I found about a half tub of Kentucky Club Mild in my cellar. It's been in there about 8 yrs. It was still fresh so I threw in a pouch of 5 Brothers to up the nicotine. Let it meld for about a month and now I enjoy it more. It was just too mild for my tastes when I first purchased it.

 

mso489

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Feb 21, 2013
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Speaking of collectible tins, we have one of the old metal tubs from Granger, empty, that celebrates my dad's fifty year history with the blend, and my wife's tiny rural Missouri home town by the same name, on some maps but not others, about five miles east of Memphis, Mo., which is on most maps.

 

shermnatman

Lifer
Jan 25, 2019
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Doing a little research here on Kentucky Club after I noticed the tin above says: "Bloch Bros Tobacco, successors to Penn Tobacco Company".
Turn out that's properly the F.R. Penn Tobacco Company of Rockingham, VA. In 1911 Penn Tobacco was purchased by American Tobacco Company (mfg of Blue Boar). F.R.'s son was Charles Ashby Penn (1868-1931), developer of the Lucky Strike motto: "It's Toasted!", refined the existing Lucky blend, and Lucky became, for a time, the nations' best-seller.
And, at some point the name Kentucky Club comes to the John Middleton Company.
So unless I have gaps or errors in the facts, it looks like the name Kentucky Club may have gone from Penn, to American (Blue Boar), to Bloch Brothers (Mail Pouch chew), to John Middleton (Cherry blend); is that correct?
Anyone else have any history on Kentucky Club? Seems this one has been around a long time and through many hands - Sherm Natman

 

huntertrw

Lifer
Jul 23, 2014
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Here's an image of a Kentucky Club Mixture tin:
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mso489

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Feb 21, 2013
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Oops, no one mentioned the Home and Hearth Midtown series blend Derby Club from Pipes and Cigars available in baggies or tubs at reasonable prices. This is a match to Kentucky Club. I haven't tried this one but have a tub of Chestnut, a match to the discontinued Walnut, that I have enjoyed for some years now. A Forums member is sending me a sample of Prince Andrew in this series, a match to Prince Albert, and I plan to reciprocate with a sample of Chestnut. People find the Midtown series appealing either because the blends are a good match, or because they are appealing in their own right and are generally found to have fewer additives and high quality tobaccos.

 

huntertrw

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Jul 23, 2014
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The Lower Forty of Hill Country
I recall reading some years ago that Kentucky Club (in the blue tin as shown in the images above) was positioned as a lower-cost alternative to the premium-priced Edgeworth Ready-Rubbed produced by Larus & Brother Company. That makes sense to me given the fact that both brands were based upon White Burley.

 

mso489

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Feb 21, 2013
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huntertrw, the pitch at the Derby Club page describing the blend says it is made as a match to Kentucky Club, so if Kentucky Club is in turn a budget match to Edgeworth Ready-Rubbed,that is an interesting lineage. Derby and Kentucky seem to share the same tobaccos, though the proportions seem to be figured out by the blenders in a sort of forensic process, counting up particles of the tobacco.

 
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